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They call themselves citizen journalists, media workers, or media activists. Amid the chaos of conflict, they are determined to gather and distribute the news.
By María Salazar-Ferro

Journalists Bryn Karcha, center, of Canada, and Toshifumi Fujimoto, right, of Japan, run for cover with an unidentified fixer in Aleppo's district of Salaheddine on December 29, 2012. (Reuters/Muzaffar Salman)

New York, October 17, 2013--The Committee to
Protect Journalists today reiterated that journalists in Syria face
unprecedented risks, after Sky News Arabic reported that it had lost contact
this week with its crew operating near Aleppo.

Just two weeks ago, I wrote that the recent escapes of American Matthew Schrier and French-American Jonathan Alpeyrie after months of captivity should give hope to all missing journalists in Syria. We now have two more reasons for hope.

Sunday, the Italian and Belgian governments announced that missing Italian journalist Domenico Quirico and Belgian academic writer Pierre Piccinin were freed. They had been missing for five months.

New
York, August 28, 2013--The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by
cyber-attacks on several websites on Tuesday, including The New York Times, whose site was disabled for
several hours. The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA), a group of hackers who support
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, took credit for the attack via its Twitter account. The group also
claimed to have attacked the websites of Twitter and The Huffington Post U.K.

Worldwide tally reaches highest point since CPJ began
surveys in 1990. Governments use charges of terrorism, other anti-state offenses
to silence critical voices. Turkey is the world's worst jailer. A CPJ special report

Syrian violence contributed to a sharp rise in
the number of journalists killed for their work in 2012, as did a series of
murders in Somalia. The dead include a record proportion of journalists who
worked online. A CPJ special report